The Slippery ‘Ghost Wall’ Warns Against the Dangers of Nativism and Nostalgia
On Sarah Moss’s haunting new novel about Brexit and the Iron Age.
Tag: Fiction
‘Where Reasons End’ Examines the Power and Limitations of Language
On Yiyun Lee’s masterful, devastating new novel.
What Do a Solar Eclipse and the Iranian Revolution Have in Common?
While on the surface Rabeah Ghaffari’s To Keep the Sun Alive is about a family amid the Iranian revolution, the novelContinue Reading
‘Once Upon a River’ Is a Meta-Gothic Slow Burn
Diane Setterfield returns with a second follow-up to ‘The Thirteenth Tale.’
‘Evening in Paradise’ Is More Proof of Lucia Berlin’s Sainthood
On FSG’s second Berlin collection, two years after ‘A Manual for Cleaning Women.’
What Ben Lerner’s ’10:04′ Teaches Us About Failure
Every now and then a book comes along that changes how you think about yourself, the world, even books themselves.Continue Reading
Tyler Barton on Minnesota and Writing Fiction Across Differences
A conversation with the winner of the Fall 2017 Arcturus Award for Fiction.
Can Fiction Rewild Our Minds?
Jeff VanderMeer and Kate Schapira on Area X, climate change, and the power of fiction.
Once Again, Barbara Comyns Deserves Your Attention
The late novelist returns with NYRB’s reissue of ‘The Juniper Tree.’
New Zealand Gets Creepy in ‘The Mannequin Makers’
On Craig Cliff’s emotional American debut.
